hi linh,thanks for posting my favorite pic of us and kids, despite my double chin and freddy's funny pose. it's now winter, an arctic wind thrashed us today and it's truly freezing. thanks again for a wonderful visit, albeit not a realistic one as far as our normally more dreary lives go. please come back, we miss you already!xl

yes, linh,unfortunately that little mini vacation right here at 'home' isn't daily reality. today i was rudely reminded several times (as i am every day besides it seems the two you were here) that i am very much in anglo-saxon land. i've got a new term for them: android-saxons. many just don't seem human to me. for the rest (the middle, chattering, guardian-reading class) there's the bbc, the bbc 4 version of which i tortured myself with for a good four hours tonight while dogsitting--no one can escape with a brain!

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Born in Vietnam in 1963, I lived mostly in the US from 1975 until 2018, but have returned to Vietnam, where I live in remote Ea Kly. I've also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of a non-fiction book, Postcards from the End of America (2017), a novel, Love Like Hate (2010), two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), and six collections of poems, with a Collected Poems apparently cancelled by Chax Press from external pressure. I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). My writing has been translated into Japanese, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in Tokyo, London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.